The Impact of COVID-19 on Outcomes in Aesthetic Medicine: AMulticentre Retrospective Study of Italian Patients

COVID-19 has profoundly affected the delivery of aesthetic treatment to the general public. In our cohort of patients who underwent botulinum toxin, soft tissue filler infiltration, and thread lifting using bioabsorbable suspension threads from January to April 2020, there was no observed increase in the number of complications. Although cutaneous complications were seen in some botulinum toxin and soft tissue filler injection recipients, the observed complication rates were similar to pre-pandemic figures. Also, these were relatively mild and were easily reversible with supportive therapy. Patients who underwent suspension thread placement did not have apparent complications regardless of having had systemic symptoms attributable to COVID-19. Regardless of the rapid upsurge of the number of cases from February to March, the reported incidences of cutaneous manifestations of possible complications remained low.